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A parable used to justify a tradition with these animals involves a handmaiden cleaning up after her son in a king’s palace. Dan Merkur claimed that Moses’s visions were from consuming mushrooms that grew on these animals’ excrement. According to the Talmud, the only mitzvot that Solomon didn’t understand involved a sabbath named after these animals that occurs immediately after Purim. The remains of a hyssop, cedar stick, and yarn were blended with the (*) blood of this animal to create the water of separation. Numbers 19 describes a purification ceremony after coming (10[1])into contact with a corpse, which requires the ashes of a red one of these animals. (10[2])The Israelites drank the dust of one of these animals, whose representation prompted a slaughter by the Levites. For 10 points, Aaron used melted jewelry to create a golden idol of what animal? ■END■

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